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Common Panel Display Variants

In practice on iSeries, the fundamental CUA panel types are commonly used in a number of specific variants:

• Single object

  - ADDOBJ: Entry panel, allowing the identifier and data for a single item to be added.

  - DSPOBJ: Entry panel, showing data for a single item.

  - CHGOBJ: Entry panel, allowing data for a single item to be changed.

• Repeated item

  - WRKOBJ: List panel, showing repeated items of a given type. Allows items to be added (F6), changed (Opt=2), or deleted (Opt=4). There will usually be a positioning field on top.

  - WRKOBJTOP: List panel, showing repeated items. Allows items to be added (Opt=1), changed (Opt=2) or deleted (Opt=4).

  - SLTOBJ: List panel, showing repeated items, allowing one to be selected.

  - RNMOBJ: List panel, showing identifiers of items to be renamed.

• Menus

  - CMDMNU: Menu panel showing commands and related menus.

  - TSKMNU: Menu panel showing simple tasks.